Michael Shenkar

Associate Professor

michael.shenkar@mail.huji.ac.il

Michael Shenkar is an Associate Professor of Pre-Islamic Iranian studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His specialization is the study of civilizations and cultures of the pre-Islamic Iranian world through their material remains and visual representations. He is a co-director of the excavations of the Sogdian town of Sanjar-Shah (5th-9th centuries CE) in northern Tajikistan.

archaeology, art, religions of the pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia, Zoroastrianism (with a particular focus on religious iconography), the culture of the Iranian nomads, the Sogdian civilization and the "Silk Roads".